The average German ( Mitteldeutsche or Zentraldeutsche ) is a group of Germanic dialects which are primarily spoken in the center about Germany and Luxembourg.

They define a zone of transition within the linguistic Continuum from the German Groupe between the speeches German superiors and Low-German S.

With the dialects of the German superior, it forms the group of the languages of the High-German. In this category, they are different from the higher German dialects by a Second consonant shift incomplete.

Classification of the principal dialects of higher German

high-German:

• means-German
• Western Means-German
• Means-francique
• Francique ripuaire
• Francique native of the Moselle region
• Luxembourg
• Rhenish Francique
• Rhenish Francique of Lorraine
• Palatine
• Hessois
• average Eastern German
• thuringeois (high-Saxon)
Berliner
• (Brandenburger)
• dialects of Lausitz
• Yiddisch
• German superior

See too

• Linguistic
• Dictionary of the languages
• Languages by family
• Indo-European Languages
• Germanic Languages
• Western Germanic Languages
• group German-Dutch
• High-German